Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of available testing capacity for samples removed from buildings as part of fire safety assessments; and if he will make a statement.

The Department continues to support building owners by providing free screening tests for the identification of Aluminium Composite Materials.

The Government announced on 19 January that it will shortly commission an independent review to examine in detail the deficiencies in testing and conformity assessment regime for construction products.

The review will report later this year.